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J. WALKER, JR.

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' APPLICATION YILED MAR.6, 1912. v 1,054,260. Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

WITNESSES: /NV/Y70R= 1 J w wade/1mm JOHN WALKER, JR., OF LONDON,ENGLAND.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 6, 1912.

Patented Feb. 25, 191 3.

Serial No. 682,064.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN WALKER, Jr., ofFarringdon House, \Varwick Lane, London, England, manufacturer, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Books,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates. to books and especially to pocketbooks.

A very great deal of attention has of late years been paid to means ofand methods for detachably connecting leaves and refills of books tocovers.

In methods hitherto adopted the book has ceased to have the appearanceof a book which is bound in one with the cover, where leaves have beenseparately attached they have been placed upon metal tongues, bindingrings, mating prongs and the like, and where several leaves have beenbound together they have been attached to the cover by a cord adapted topass longitudinally between the leaves of the refill. In other cases flyleaves have been attached to the refill which are adapted to lie inpockets disposed in thercover. In all these cases the book has ceased toappear like an ordinary book.

The object of this invention is to provide simple means of attaching arefill to a cover to form a book in such a manner that the refill can beremoved and replaced readily at will and have the appearance of a bookwhich is bound in one with the cover.

According to this invention the refill is,

attached to the cover by a metal troughshaped member on one part,co-acting with a metal channel-shaped member on the other part, withmeans for locking the parts together.

The drawings show one form of pocket book made in accordance with thisinvention.

Figure 1 is a back View of the refill; Fig. 2 is an end view of therefill; Fig. 3 shows the inside of the cover; Fig. l is an end view ofthe cover; Fig. 5 is an enlarged view showing the metal plates of bothparts in position; Fig. 6 is a detail showing one form of catch forholding the parts together when in use.

A strip of fabric a is cl nped between a metal plate Z) and a metalplate of troughshape 0 provided with external flanges (Z. These platesare secured together by rivets or eyelets. The fabric a is then pastedto the refill in such a manner that the strip 1) abuts the back of therefill.

A strip of fabric 0 is clamped between a metal plate f and a metal plateof channelsection g provided with internal flanges h forming grooves.The fabric is then pasted to the cover in such a manner that the metalstrips lie longitudinally down the fold of the cover.

In use, to attach a refill to a cover, it is only necessary to assemblethe parts so that the flanges (Z of one part engage with the grooves hon the other part.

A stop and catch may be provided in one or both parts to insure theparts being retained in the assembled positions unless purposely parted,and for the same purpose the grooves could be slightly tapered or closedat one end to grip the flanges. One end of the part attached to the bookmay be notched as at j and slit as at 70 so that the notches engage witha corresponding aperture in the part attached to the case.

The strips 1) and f could be dispensed with if desired and other meansof securing the strips to the refill and cover could be devised withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention.

In a book made in accordance with this invention the leaves can beopened freely as they are not clamped laterally, and the refill is heldsecurely in position and is not liable to movement in the cover.

WVhat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a book thecombination of a cover part and a refill part, said cover part andrefill part being adapted to be detachably connected together, a stripof metal of channel section, internally projecting flanges on saidstrip, fabric attached to the metal strip and to one of said parts, ametal strip of trough section, externally projecting flanges In Witnesswhereof, I have hereunto to said strip, fabric attached to the metal.signed my name in the presence of two substrip and to the other part,said external scribing Witnesses.

flanges of one metal strip being adapted to JOHN WALKER, JUNK. 5 engagewith the grooves formed by the inlVit-nesses:

ternally projecting flanges of the other GEORGE H. BAKER, metal strip.ROBERT MILTON SPEARPOINT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

